Existential thinkings
The Universe Might Be Thinking Through... Your Tongue?! Why Your Cells Could Be Conscious: The Nested Observer Window Theory of Consciousness
Dr. Jason Yuanbiofield.substack.comthe-law-of-obligation-aboriginal-ethics-australia-becoming-australia-dreaming_mary-graham.pdf
parrhesiajournal.orgInstitute for Practical ekoPhilosophy
institute-pep.comDoes purpose precede product? A priapic why before the receptacle of what? Is there a reason for the eye that goes on to fashion sight? A determination about things that give things their form? Design before designation? Blueprint before skyblue?
What if purpose is not as transcendent as we think? What if the holy why also rides the bus, meandering... See more
What if purpose is not as transcendent as we think? What if the holy why also rides the bus, meandering... See more
The Teachings of Mistle Thrush and Kingfisher | Australian Journal of Environmental Education | Cambridge Core
cambridge.orgThe Paradox of Connection
We often declare that everything is connected, but this very declaration keeps us conceptually apart. To be connected, we must first assume we are separate entities capable of disconnection. The ontological assumption underlying reconnection narratives is that disconnection is possible—that we can sever our ties to the... See more
We often declare that everything is connected, but this very declaration keeps us conceptually apart. To be connected, we must first assume we are separate entities capable of disconnection. The ontological assumption underlying reconnection narratives is that disconnection is possible—that we can sever our ties to the... See more
Disconnection: Why "Nature Connection" Keeps Us Stuck
Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody.... See more
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody.... See more
Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain
aka what we refer to as ‘natural selection’, whereby reality is constantly deleting, revising, evloving, at the foaming edge of becomingness; no Hero’s journey of striving to Be The Best Self, just a love-driven exploration of what can be possible, to know ourself in every way, distilled by the pain and joy of existing; n’er static, (by definition it cannot be);
Merlin Donald, in his theory of cognitive evolution, argues that human intelligence emerged not from static memory storage but from external symbolic representation : tools like language, gesture, and writing that allowed us to rehearse, share, and restructure thought. Culture became a collective memory system - not to archive knowledge, but to... See more